Theoretical Analysis of the Solidification of Aluminum Alloy Billet in Air-Slip DC Mold

Based on the heat transfer analysis of Air-Slip DC mold, a numerical model was presented to study the quantitative relationships between critical solidification layer and casting rate, pouring temperature and mold cooling ability etc. The analytical results show that the Air-Slip mold heat transfer condition plays important roles on choices of a casting rate and the pouring temperature, and that the product of billet diameter and casting rate is a certain constant under a certain condition of the mold.     

Technology Problems of Laser Cladding Procedure for in-situ TiCp／Al Composite Layer on Aluminum Alloy

IntroductionLaser cladding on aluminum alloy surface is avalid means to improve its surface characteristic.In the past researches,the self- molten alloys wereusually used for laser claddings to improve surfacewear resistance of aluminum alloys[1,2 ] .However,owing to great difference of heat expansion coeffi-cients between aluminum alloy substrate and cladmaterials,such as Ni- Cr- Si- B,Ni- Cr- Al,the big-ger strain in clad layer is formed during solidifica-tion,which results in a lot of cr…